Recording of the cello lesson with Marcia Wiley (Aug. 2010) – the ending got a little out of hand LOL, but it is a beautiful piece to play (and for me to listen to)… ….and barking dog added a little “zest” to it too… LOL
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July 28, 2011 – Alessandro’s composition is performed in the concert hall of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Alessandro is 11 years old. This piece was composed during the SFCM Summer Music West Composition Intensive class, A’s assignment being to write a quartet for flute, clarinet, cello and viola. Like some of the best premieres, some accidents may happen, see 3:13, yet you’ll hopefully get a feel for the whole piece. Here are the composer’s notes: Quartet in F-Sharp Minor – “The Clockmaker, The Hotel Maid, and The Italian Violinist” “The inspiration for this piece came to me from a book I recently read, “The Clockwork Three” by Matthew J. Kirby. The story takes place in an unnamed American industrial city at the end of the 19th century and is about 3 kids, an apprentice clockmaker, a hotel maid, and a street musician, an Italian violinist. At the beginning they all live in gloomy situations, as you can hear at the start of the piece, a sad theme. They each try to escape and make their life better: a faster theme represents their attempts to escape. However, every time the bad guys win, and the sad melody comes back. At some point the 3 kids meet, and I’ve merged previous themes together to represent that important event. They try to escape together, the escape theme comes back with instruments playing new motives, and we get into the Presto part, the final fight, where the kids defeat the bad guys. The Italian violinist can now return back to Italy, and the …